The Young Gardener’s Assistant, in Three Parts. Containing Catalogues of Garden and Flower Seeds with Practical Directions Under Each Head for the Cultivation of Culinary Vegetables and Flowers; Also, Directions for Cultivating Fruit Trees, The Grape Vine, &c., To Which is Added A Calendar to Each Part: Showing the Work Necessary to Be Done in the Various Departments Each Month of the Year. The Whole Adapted to the Climate of the United States.
Published by C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co., 1860
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Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar
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The Young Gardener’s Assistant, in Three Parts. Containing Catalogues of Garden and Flower Seeds with Practical Directions Under Each Head for the Cultivation of Culinary Vegetables and Flowers; Also, Directions for Cultivating Fruit Trees, The Grape Vine, &c., To Which is Added A Calendar to Each Part: Showing the Work Necessary to Be Done in the Various Departments Each Month of the Year. The Whole Adapted to the Climate of the United States. New Edition, With an Appendix, Containing Remarks on the Alleged Disease of the Potato, etc. by Thomas Bridgeman, C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co., New York, 1860, 164 pp, 164 pp, 189 pp, plus publisher’s list, original cloth, 9.5 x 6”, 8vo. In fair condition. Moderate wear to extremities with scuffing to corners and joints. Edges worn with light staining and soiling to surface of cloth. Spine abraded with minor loss at head and tail. Old hand notations on pastedown and fly. Interior lightly toned with scattered foxing, heavy at times. Free of known marginalia. Binding remains intact. Please see photos. Later edition. Thomas Bridgeman (1786-1850) was an English gardener, who came to New York in 1824, leased land on Broadway and built green houses and sold seeds. “. he was a man of broad intelligence, and wrote valuable books on fruits, vegetables and flowers.” This work went through many editions.…
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- Title
- The Young Gardener’s Assistant, in Three Parts. Containing Catalogues of Garden and Flower Seeds with Practical Directions Under Each Head for the Cultivation of Culinary Vegetables and Flowers; Also, Directions for Cultivating Fruit Trees, The Grape Vine, &c., To Which is Added A Calendar to Each Part: Showing the Work Necessary to Be Done in the Various Departments Each Month of the Year. The Whole Adapted to the Climate of the United States.
- Author
- Bridgeman, Thomas
- Publisher
- C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co.
- Publication year
- 1860
- Condition
- Fair
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
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ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar
Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since November 21, 2006
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Robin Rare Books is the RARE BOOKS DIVISION of the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Established in 2001, we are the LARGEST ACADEMIC USED BOOKSTORE between New York and Chicago, with more than TWO MILLION second-hand and out-of-print SCHOLARLY BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS. Our Harrisburg shop has been named the region's Best Independent Bookstore.
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The Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Inc. (Rare Books Division)
3401 North Sixth Street
Harrisburg, PA U.S.A. 17110
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Chosen as Publishers Weekly's 2023 Bookstore of the Year! Robin Rare Books is the RARE BOOKS DIVISION of the Midtown Scholar Bookstore. Established in 2001, we are the LARGEST ACADEMIC USED BOOKSTORE between New York and Chicago, with more than TWO MILLION second-hand and out-of-print SCHOLARLY BOOKS IN ALL FIELDS. Our Harrisburg shop has been named the region's Best Independent Bookstore. ... A buyer is eligible to receive a full refund if a book is not in the condition described.
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